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« on: November 11, 2007, 20:26:06 pm »

Hey guys I've been looking around here for some time and thought I would share my ongoing project with you.

I used to drive a 1972 germanlook beetle (the sequel)


But after 7 years I wanted something different so last winter I started buillding the tikimadness
I raced it at bugin#1 and at ddd5.

It turned out nice but I was on the way of redoing some things such as narrowing the rear suspension to fit the wheels under stock fenders( don't like widend fenders).

I also wanted some more poke in the back so I'm adding a turbo and a 4 barrel to my 2.4 typ4



yesterday I had the change to buy a 1954 oval shell allready prepped and just needs paint.
The body is close to perfection so it's a good base to make a really nice car.


I allways liked metalflake so I'm thinking of gold over brown flake paintjob with TIKIMADNESS in goldleaf

Trying to get that 60's 70's gasserstyle

I'll post pics asap

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« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2007, 22:25:02 pm »

hey michael!
a gasser in tilburg?  Grin
cool!
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« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2007, 17:40:22 pm »

I really dig the Tiki Madness theme. Think it will look great with metalflakes etc.
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« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2007, 17:49:56 pm »


Mmmmm, Tatra 603... Is it the early type with the glass panel across the width of the nose?
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« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2007, 18:25:51 pm »

it's a 68 i believe it has an aircooled v8 in it and it belongs to a customer of www.deboxer.nl


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« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2007, 18:55:42 pm »

yesterday I removed the body to make some changes to the rollcage.The (old) body has been scrapped already because it had no reusable parts.

I'll try to finish the rear suspension and the cage so I can pick up the oval shell and modify it to fit on my floorpan.

I wasn't sure about the flipfront but I decided to not use it but to sell it because I don't think it is much sense to cut up a perfect oval body to then put the flipfront on.

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« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2007, 19:00:10 pm »

Welcome here Michael and i'll be in tilburg this comming saturday(17th) Grin
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« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2007, 19:18:31 pm »

thanks I'll be there too. trying to get some things done so the body can be premounted.

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« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2007, 04:44:14 am »

what for stanford?
you know i go to uni here don't you?  Wink
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« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2007, 08:31:31 am »

Actually i have to go to breda Diederick but i thought hey that isnt to far away from tilburg and thought i drop by at my old friends Ron and Michael at The Boxer.
Yeah you told me you study there.
Maybe you'll spot me in my beetle Grin
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« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2007, 08:32:00 am »

See y athere Michael Grin
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« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2007, 05:38:58 am »

Dude that is one sick ride!!!! that TIKIMADness car  scares me (in a good way Shocked)
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« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2007, 04:52:50 am »

I've been changing the rear set up.I narrowed the torsionbar and movit the pivots for the irs inward


and I cleaned up the floorpan


and i changed the shifter


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« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2007, 11:56:31 am »

Project is looking great Michael Cool
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« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2007, 21:13:23 pm »

I have been working on the car this weekend and allthough progress is slow I need to sort out these small yhings

The narrowing of the irs is finished and I've been detailing the cage.

Hope to pick up the oval shell very soon,so it's going to look like a car again.







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« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2007, 18:22:01 pm »

Finally I got the time to pickup the ovalshell on the other side of town.The downside is that I don't have time to start cutting all exces metal


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« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2007, 18:22:51 pm »



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« Reply #17 on: December 15, 2007, 13:24:51 pm »

managed to get some free hours during the last few days(late hours).

I made up my mind and decided to loose the innerfenders front and rear and the luggage area and the pieces under the bonnet.
At first I wasn't sure about the cutting but as I took a good look at the car I found that it was never going to be a showwinning body.
That's because the car has been repaired after a serious accident somewhere in the 60s.There are seams along the entire car from the rear left hand side to the front right hand side.it has been done to a very high standard but by cutting up the body I have lost most of the seams.



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« Reply #18 on: December 15, 2007, 19:24:52 pm »

Looking good Tiki Cool . That sure is a big weight loss program Shocked . Keep them pix coming  Smiley.
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« Reply #19 on: December 16, 2007, 02:01:54 am »

Cool Michael,you can do it. Roll Eyes
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« Reply #20 on: December 16, 2007, 09:24:33 am »

Nice Michael,wish i could do all that in my garage Grin
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« Reply #21 on: December 17, 2007, 21:41:30 pm »

trial fitted the wings today to see how thing line up and especially to see if the slicks fit under stock fenders





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« Reply #22 on: December 18, 2007, 01:04:07 am »

Seems they fit!

Love to see trough what was the front luggage compartiment right to the pan. light!
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« Reply #23 on: December 18, 2007, 21:58:15 pm »

trialfitted the doors tonight and found out I hav to cut out a piece of the front of the doors in order to close them.Since the rollcage was build last year in a mexico body and the older oval doors are thicker things don't fit the way I thought they would............


also I'm looking where to put the switches and gauges,


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« Reply #24 on: December 22, 2007, 17:39:48 pm »

I have been trying to fill the holes in the door I made earlier this week to get the doors to close.




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« Reply #25 on: December 24, 2007, 12:38:47 pm »

Cool Project Mike !!!
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« Reply #26 on: December 24, 2007, 16:16:19 pm »

Got my wheels in the mail today Grin



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« Reply #27 on: December 25, 2007, 00:18:31 am »

hope i find something nice like that under my tree in the morning too Wink
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« Reply #28 on: December 25, 2007, 13:52:39 pm »

managed to get some free hours during the last few days(late hours).

I made up my mind and decided to loose the innerfenders front and rear and the luggage area and the pieces under the bonnet.
At first I wasn't sure about the cutting but as I took a good look at the car I found that it was never going to be a showwinning body.
That's because the car has been repaired after a serious accident somewhere in the 60s.There are seams along the entire car from the rear left hand side to the front right hand side.it has been done to a very high standard but by cutting up the body I have lost most of the seams.



michael

hey Michael, is that Rollcage finished? or will you ad some that goes to the front beam from under the dash??
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« Reply #29 on: December 25, 2007, 13:59:41 pm »

@Kobus I'm still thinking about it,on one side it will add a lot of strength but on the other side there is the weight issue.I was thinking of adding a tubular structure from the bottom fenderbolts to the front axle.In case of an accident(hope that never happens)it wil get destroyd any way.
I think I keep withthe subtle tubular structure.

I have to wait until thursday before I can continue  Undecided

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